v10.1.0 Distribution Files
- Source Tarballs
Version 10.1.0
Released on May 16, 2019
Improvements from 10.0.0
- Full support of dynamic instrumentation on ARMv8
- Significant improvement of stack walking on ARMv8
- Adding instruction decoding support for AMD instruction extensions, such as XOP and FMA4
- Enhancement of the build system for checking and installing dependencies (see wiki for important details)
- Updated the Spack recipe for building Dyninst with appropriate Boost versions
Bug Fixes
- More stable parallel binary code analysis
- Identifying and fixing a couple of race conditions
- Enforcing unique analysis order to generate deterministic results
- Improving code generation for instrumentation on Power to conform to ABI v2
- Improving binary rewriting on x86 and Power for
- Position independent executables (PIEs)
- Statically linked binaries
- Resolving deadlocks in ProccontrolAPI
- Improving code generation for
BPatch_whileExpr
on x86, Power, and ARMv8. - Fixing SIGILLs problems on ARMv8 caused by icache-dcache incoherence
- Fixing supports of parsing debug information stored in separate files
- Fixing incomplete libdw port for parsing DWARF expressions
v10.0.0 Distribution Files
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Version 10.0.0
Released on November 9, 2018
Improvements from 9.3.2
- Parallel binary code analysis (ParseAPI)
- Parallel code parsing, significantly improving the speed of the analysis of large binaries
- Parallel query to ParseAPI
- Improve multiple aspects of parsing, including non-returning functions, tail call identification, jump table analysis
- First official release of dyninstAPI for ARMv8, with partial support of dynamic instrumentation
- Improving support for Power 8 & 9 instrumentation and new vector instruction decoding
- SymtabAPI now provides information about inlined functions. See the manual for details.
- Limited CUDA support: read-only queries of SymtabAPI
- Updated Spack receipt for installing Dyninst
Software Dependency Changes
- Adds dependency on libdw and removes dependency on libdwarf
- Adds dependency on Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB)
- Adds optional dependency on OpenMP for parallel code analysis
Bug Fixes
- x86/64 decoding Issues, including adding support for vector instructions and wrong operand sizes
- Fix compilation issues on Arch Linux
- Cross-architecture binary analysis: try/catch blocks
- Improve DWARF parsing: fix dwarf symbol frame and elf section parsing
- Improve CMake build systems: automatically downloading correct versions of Boost, TBB, and elfutils
- Fix inferior RPC on ARMv8
- Updated CMake build system for automatically downloading Dyninst dependencies and support parallel compilation